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@MISC{Berleant00modelsfor,
author = {Daniel Berleant},
title = {Models for Reader Interaction Systems},
year = {2000}
}
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Abstract
In this paper we discuss models for systems that support reading. Our account identifies important models and presents a framework for organizing them. To evaluate this account, we show its ability to suggest a wide range of text presentation systems, many of them novel. This evaluation not only provides interesting ideas for future systems, it also shows the usefulness of the account, and further, exemplifies a general approach to evaluating meta-level discussions such as this, namely, evaluating by assessing ability to generate interesting implications. Keywords Reading, text, navigation, foraging, browsing, browsers, metaphors, paradigms, models. 1. INTRODUCTION A variety of models, paradigms, metaphors, and componentizations exist that relate to reader interaction with text. We define paradigms here as broad and overarching computing themes that can contribute to the design of systems for reading but do not by themselves imply much about the specifications of s...
